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Microplastics
Microplastics: are very small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment. Microplastics are not a specific kind of plastic, but rather any type of plastic fragment that is less than 5 mm in length.
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JUL 10, 2025Earth & The Environment
What processes are responsible for contributing airborne microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) to the environment? This ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 27, 2025Earth & The Environment
The health of global oceans is under constant threat from harms like microplastics, oil spills, industrial pollution and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 20, 2025Earth & The Environment
Plastics are everywhere in our world, and these tough chemicals that are used in everything from food packaging to roofi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 14, 2025Microbiology
Plastic is a cheap and durable material that has been adapted and applied in innumerable ways. Vast amounts of plastic h ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 04, 2025Earth & The Environment
Plastic materials are in widespread use, and this tough stuff sticks around in the environment. When plastic packaging, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 25, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
The widespread production and use of plastics began around the 1950s, but the production of plastics has also increased ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 08, 2024Earth & The Environment
Right now, plastics are wreaking havoc on the environment. While plastics have been very useful, they are also quite tou ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 04, 2024Earth & The Environment
Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. They m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 26, 2024Earth & The Environment
A new study reported in BMJ Global Health is highlighting the significant cost of bottled water. The study has estimated ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 21, 2024Earth & The Environment
Fashion, and particularly fast fashion, is massively destructive to the planet. Only a few decades ago, people and famil ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 25, 2024Earth & The Environment
About half of all of the plastics in the world have been created since only 2000, and we are now swimming in the stuff. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 07, 2024Earth & The Environment
Plastics are ubiquitous in our society. Made from petroleum products, this highly durable material has what seems like a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 24, 2024Earth & The Environment
How do microplastics impact marine ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in PLoS One hopes to address as a t ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 16, 2024Earth & The Environment
Fashion, and particularly so-called fast fashion, in which companies release multiple rounds of cheap clothing every yea ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 02, 2024Earth & The Environment
Plastics are made from fossil fuels, and plastic production is a major contributor to climate change. Plastic is a tough ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2023Microbiology
Rotifers are a type of microscopic zooplankton that lives in freshwater ecosystems and oceans around the world. Ne resea ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 20, 2023Earth & The Environment
Hannah Lukasik is a second-year Hydrology Master of Science student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences (GPHS ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 31, 2023Earth & The Environment
Plastics have become a major problem, particularly when it comes to single-use, disposable plastics that are commonly us ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 31, 2023Technology
Researchers at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan have devised a new way to take plastic bottles that often fi ...Written By: Ryan VingumJUN 09, 2023Earth & The Environment
Microplastics are small plastic particles less than five millimeters long. They can come from larger plastic pieces whic ...Written By: Amelia RhodelandJUN 05, 2023Microbiology
Sargassum is a brown macroalgae that is abundant in the ocean. It has many appendages and 'berries' that are ful ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 27, 2023Earth & The Environment
As fast fashion and production of goods ramps up around the world, textiles are an increasingly large portion of the was ...Written By: Amelia RhodelandMAY 25, 2023Microbiology
Plastic waste is a major problem around the world... But, one that microbes could help us tackle.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 23, 2023Earth & The Environment
Microplastics, also known as MPs, are tiny pieces of plastic that measure less than 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) across a ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 10, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What processes are responsible for contributing airborne microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) to the environment? This
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 27, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The health of global oceans is under constant threat from harms like microplastics, oil spills, industrial pollution and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 20, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Plastics are everywhere in our world, and these tough chemicals that are used in everything from food packaging to roofi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 14, 2025
Microbiology
Plastic is a cheap and durable material that has been adapted and applied in innumerable ways. Vast amounts of plastic h
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 04, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Plastic materials are in widespread use, and this tough stuff sticks around in the environment. When plastic packaging,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 25, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
The widespread production and use of plastics began around the 1950s, but the production of plastics has also increased
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 08, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Right now, plastics are wreaking havoc on the environment. While plastics have been very useful, they are also quite tou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 04, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. They m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 26, 2024
Earth & The Environment
A new study reported in BMJ Global Health is highlighting the significant cost of bottled water. The study has estimated
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 21, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Fashion, and particularly fast fashion, is massively destructive to the planet. Only a few decades ago, people and famil
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 25, 2024
Earth & The Environment
About half of all of the plastics in the world have been created since only 2000, and we are now swimming in the stuff.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 07, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Plastics are ubiquitous in our society. Made from petroleum products, this highly durable material has what seems like a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 24, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How do microplastics impact marine ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in PLoS One hopes to address as a t
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 16, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Fashion, and particularly so-called fast fashion, in which companies release multiple rounds of cheap clothing every yea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 02, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Plastics are made from fossil fuels, and plastic production is a major contributor to climate change. Plastic is a tough
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2023
Microbiology
Rotifers are a type of microscopic zooplankton that lives in freshwater ecosystems and oceans around the world. Ne resea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 20, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Hannah Lukasik is a second-year Hydrology Master of Science student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences (GPHS
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 31, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Plastics have become a major problem, particularly when it comes to single-use, disposable plastics that are commonly us
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 31, 2023
Technology
Researchers at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan have devised a new way to take plastic bottles that often fi
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JUN 09, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Microplastics are small plastic particles less than five millimeters long. They can come from larger plastic pieces whic
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
JUN 05, 2023
Microbiology
Sargassum is a brown macroalgae that is abundant in the ocean. It has many appendages and 'berries' that are ful
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 27, 2023
Earth & The Environment
As fast fashion and production of goods ramps up around the world, textiles are an increasingly large portion of the was
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
MAY 25, 2023
Microbiology
Plastic waste is a major problem around the world... But, one that microbes could help us tackle.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 23, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Microplastics, also known as MPs, are tiny pieces of plastic that measure less than 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) across a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc